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is very neat; and B. virgdta flowers freely. Pots 

 should be well drained. The flowers of all the genus 

 are white. 



Billardieras, about five species, are desirable as 

 climbers, being of rapid growth, and abundant in 

 flower. B. longiflbra, fruits freely, and has fine blue 

 berries which look handsome. B. mutabilis is change- 

 able from purple to scarlet. The fruit of B. scandens is 

 covered with down, flowers straw coloured. B. fusi- 

 formis differs in colour from the others, the flowers 

 being blue. They require to be well drained. 



Calceolarias, about fourteen species, besides many 

 hybrid varieties. C. angustifolia, and C. integrifolia are 

 the best of the shrubby species. C. plantaginea, C. co- 

 rymbosa, C. purpurea, and C. hopidna, and of the hybrid 

 varieties, C. micans and C. hybnda are very fine ; but 

 we understand they are numerous, and some of them 

 very splendid. 



To grow any of these properly, they should be di- 

 vided a few weeks after they begin to grow ; put them 

 in small pots at first, and enlarge them gradually. 

 Where there is a hot-house, after dividing them, it will 

 greatly promote their growth to keep them in it a few 

 weeks near the glass, until the weather gets mild, 

 when they may be removed to the Green-house. The 

 flowers are principally yellow. C. Pother gillii, purpurea, 

 and archnoidea are purple ; the hybrids are spotted with 

 red and brown, and some of them streaked many co- 

 lours. They continue a long time in flower. 



Calothamnus, four species. This genus is named in 

 allusion to the splendid appearance of the branches, 



